Tail holder



July 21,1925.

J. W- PRIEST TAIL HOLDER Filed Dec. 1924 Patented July 21, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. PRIEST, F BOISE, IDAHO.

TAIL HOLDER.

Application filed December 15, 1924. Serial No. 756,098.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that J OHN W'. Pruner, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Boise, in the county of Adaand State of Idaho, has invented new and useful Improvements in Tail Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a cheap and simple device adapted for attachment to a cows leg during the milking operation, so that the tail may be secured to prevent the annoyance attendant on the animal constantly switching the tail.

With this purpose in view, the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the invention applied in operative position.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the leg clamp.

Figures 3 and 4e are respectively side and edge elevational views of the tail clamp.

The leg clamp l constitutes means for securing the device to the leg of the animal and is made preferably of a single wire strand coiled at an intermediate point to provide the spring coil 2 connecting the arcuate arms 3 designed to encompass a leg of the animal at the hook joint, the terminals of the arms 3 being provided with inter locking hooks 4 by means of which the clamp 1 may be secured to the leg.

Connected to the clamp, as by means of a chain 5, is the tail clamp 6, this clamp being also formed of a single strand oi wire having an intermediate spring coil 7 and jaw members 8 and 9, the jaw member 9 consisting of a single strand and the aw memher 8 of a double strand formed by bending the blank back on itself at the terminal, thus providing two spaced strands between which the jaw member moves in the operation of the device.

The section or" the strand constituting the jaw member 9 is bent to provide a section 10 disposed tangentially to the spring coil and with a section 11 forming an obtuse angle 0U with the section 10, the section 11 connecting with the terminal section 12 and being Lil) disposed substantially at right angles to the latter section, a hand ring 14: constituting the tree extremity of that portion of the strand constituting the jaw 9.

The jaw 8 is reversely curved, as indicated, so that, in the unattached position, it may stand straight from the section 12 of the jaw 9 and may thus permit ready engagement of the device with the cows tail by inserting it between the nose 15 and the section 12 when, by pulling on the ring 14-, the jaws may be sprung apart until the tail is disposed in the space bounded by the sections 10 and 11 03": the jaw 9 and that portion of the jaw 8 connected with the spring coil, the spring coil tending to force the jaws toward each other and thus retain the tail clamped in position between the jaws.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A cow tail holder formed from a single strand oi wire bent at an intermediate point to provide a spring coil and terminally formed to provide cooperating jaws of which one consists of a duality of strands and the other of a single strand movable between the dual strands, the dual strand jaw being formed with a nose normally spaced from the single strand jaw and the latter having a terminal finger ring.

2. A cow tail holder formed from a single strand of wire bent at an intermediate point to provide a spring coil and terminally formed to provide cooperating jaws of which one consists of a duality of strands and the other of single strand movable between the dual strands, the dual strand jaw being formed with a nose normally spaced from the single strand jaw and the latter having a terminal finger ring, the dual strand jaw being reversely curved and the single strand jaw having a section substantially tangential to the coil and continuing section at an obtuse angle to the tangential section and the terminal disposed at substantially a right angle to the continuing section.

In testimony whereof he aiiixes his signature.

JOHN W. PRIEST. 

